User talk:Doc2234/Joe Morello

Expanded lead in

Early Life

existing entry as of 3/21/11 Morello suffered from partial vision from birth, and devoted himself to indoor activities. At six years old he began studying the violin, going on to feature three years later as soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, playing Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, and again three years later.

At the age of 15 Morello met the violinist Jascha Heifetz and decided that he would never be able to equal Heifetz's "sound", so switched to drumming, first studying with a show drummer named Joe Sefcik and then George Lawrence Stone, author of the noted drum textbook Stick Control for the Snare Drummer. Stone was so impressed with Morello's ideas that he incorporated them into his next book, Accents & Rebounds, which is dedicated to Morello. Later, Morello studied with Radio City Music Hall percussionist Billy Gladstone.

study with Springfield drummer Joe Cefcik 3 years?

Morello began studies with George Lawrence Stone when he was sixteen.

study with George Lawrence Stone in Boston 3 years encouraged to move towards jazz rudimental champion of New England "I consider him to be one of the finest and most talented executants I have ever heard. I am indeed proud of him. In addition to the more obvious attributes of speed and control, he has a most highly developed sense of rythm and that feeling of (and for) jazz, without which all other endowments fail. In other words, to put it crudely, he possesses that uncanny sense of 'putting the right sound in the right place at the right time.'"

Early professional career

Hank Garland and the Grand Old Opry, Whitey Bernard, then to New York and played with Gil Melle, Johnny Smith, Tal Farlow, Jimmy Raney, and Stan Kenton, then with Marian McPartland's trio. When he left Marian McPartland, he turned down offers from big bands - Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and accepted the temporary two month tour with Dave Brubeck.

DownBeat article http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=900 Retrieved 3/20/11 Joe Morello: With A Light Touch by Marian McPartland — 3/25/1965

Modern Drummer March/April '79

Modern Drummer November '86

Modern Drummer November '06 parts of which were reprinted here http://www.moderndrummer.com/updatefull/200001512/Joe%20Morello

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

DownBeat article http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=900 Retrieved 3/20/11 Joe Morello: With A Light Touch by Marian McPartland — 3/25/1965

Modern Drummer March/April '79

Modern Drummer November '86

Joe Morello a life of triumphs http://www.drummagazine.com/features/post/joe-morello-a-life-of-triumphs/

lessons with Billy Gladstone

Teaching

methods clinics students

writing methods background for "Master Studies" early pioneer in clinics - identify some of the clinics list of students included Danny Gottlieb, , , , , , , , , ,

DownBeat article http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=900 Retrieved 3/20/11 Joe Morello: With A Light Touch by Marian McPartland — 3/25/1965

Modern Drummer March/April '79

Modern Drummer November '86

played with Doreen Gray and Nate Lienhardt later

Awards and recognition

Morello was the recipient of many awards, including Playboy magazine's best drummer award for seven years in a row, and Down Beat magazine's best drummer award five years in a row. He was elected to the Modern Drummer magazine Hall of Fame in 1988, the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame in 1993, and was the recipient of Hudson Music's first TIP (Teacher Integration Program) Lifetime Achievement award in June, 2010. PAS Hall of Fame http://www.pas.org/experience/halloffame.aspx

During six of the years spanning from 1959 to 1965, Morello was voted best, either as a member of The Dave Brubeck Quartet, or both as a member of that group and individually as a drummer in Down Beat magazine's annual readers polls.

Down Beat Readers Poll

1959 DownBeat Readers Poll 12/31/59 Best Combo-Instrumental, Dave Brubeck Quartet http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=765

1960 Down Beat Readers Poll 12/31/60 Best Combo-Instrumental, Dave Brubeck Quartet http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=766

1962 Down Beat Readers Poll 12/31/62 Best Combo-Instrumental, Dave Brubeck Best Drummer, Joe Morello http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=770

1963 Down Beat Readers Poll 12/31/63 Best Combo-Instrumental, Dave Brubeck Best Drummer, Joe Morello http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=771

1964 Down Beat Readers Poll 12/31/64 Best Combo-Instrumental, Dave Brubeck Best Drummer, Joe Morello http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=772

1965 Down Beat Readers Poll 12/31/65 Best Combo-Instrumental, Dave Brubeck http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=773

need references for Playboy Jazz/Music Poll

need reference for Modern Drummer Hall of Fame award 1988

member of the Percussive Arts Society hall of fame in 1993 http://www.pas.org/experience/halloffame/MorelloJoe.aspx take from this for md hall of fame reference etc

Tributes

Drum! Magazine tribute Joe Morello dies http://www.drummagazine.com/wiretap/post/jazz-legend-joe-morello-dies-at-the-age-of-83/

Danny Gottlieb on Joe Morello http://www.drummagazine.com/features/post/danny-gottlieb-blog-three-things-i-miss-about-joe-morello/ Rehearsing the Blues obituary http://adevoutmusician.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/1-2-3-4-5-rip-joe-morello/ Down Beat 3/14/11 Drummer Joe Morello, 1928-2011 http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=news&subsect=news_detail&nid=1671

Videography, instructional

• Joe Morello – Drum Method 1: The Natural approach to Technique (DVD) Hot Licks 2006
• Joe Morello – Drum Method 2: Around the Kit (DVD) Hot Licks 2006
• Joe Morello, Danny Gottlieb: Natural Drumming Lessons 3&4 (DVD) Mel Bay Publications, Inc. 2006
• The Art of Playing with Brushes (DVD) Hudson Music 2007

Verify who owns the below videos

• The Whipping Motion (online) DrummerWorld
• Play the Hi Hat (online) DrummerWorld
• The Killer Exercise (online) DrummerWorld
• Around the Drumset (online) DrummerWorld
• Playing around a little bit (online) DrummerWorld

Joe Morello on video http://www.drummagazine.com/features/post/joe-morello-on-video-performances-amp-lessons/

Drumkit setups

Late 1950s through 1960s

Ludwig Super Classic

22" bass

9x13 tom

16x16 floor tom

general brief about kits and endorsements Joe Morello drumkits http://www.drummagazine.com/gear/post/joe-morellorsquos-drum-kit-through-the-ages/ info on heads pedals the Supraphonic 400 not mentioned in the Drum! magazine article?

Selected discography

Main article: Joe Morello discography

- everything

selected discography http://www.drummagazine.com/features/post/joe-morello-selected-discography/

External links

lists Wikipedia twice http://www.drummagazine.com/features/post/morello-online-more-about-the-drumming-legend/